Creating/viewing photo slideshows of variously sized subsets of photos
October 29, 2017 1:39 AM Subscribe
Hooray, I just got back from vacation, and took hundreds of pictures! I'd like to arrange them so I can show people subsets of various sizes, depending on the audience. What photo-sharing or photo-storage site can do this?
Let's say I took 500 pictures. No one wants to see 500 pictures, of course. But how many they would want to see depends on how well they know me, the situation in which I'm showing them, etc. Let's say I'd like to have three different slideshows available. The smallest might have just 15 pictures selected out of the 500. The second might have a total of 50 — the 15 from the first set, plus another 35. The third might have another 70, for a total of 120 pictures. (Don't obsess over the numbers — they're just examples for illustration.)
I'd like to easily be able to select any of the three sets — 15, 50, or 120 photos — to show to someone. Ideally a web- or cloud-based solution that works cleanly on either a desktop browser or Android mobile, i.e., either a dedicated app for Android or a well-designed mobile version of the site.
I'm imagining some sort of rating system (controlled entirely by me, not crowdsourced), so for example, if it's a rating system that goes up to 5 stars, I would rate the top 15 photos 5 stars, the next 35 with 4 stars, and the next 70 with 3 stars. Then I should easily be able to display a slideshow of either the 5-star photos, the 4-star and up photos, or the 3-star and up photos.
I'm not tied into a rating system like I described though, that's just one possible way I envision accomplishing what I want to do, and am open to other methods. However, I'm trying to avoid a tag-based solution where I have to manually tag photos into multiple groups (e.g., one where the top 15 photos are tagged with "group1 group2 group3," the next 35 with "group2 group3" and the final 70 with "group3"), as I'd like anything placed in the top group to automatically be placed into the larger versions of the slideshow as well, avoiding both the manual work of tagging it into multiple groups as well as the possibility of accidental error ("group1 group3").
If any major photo-sharing or photo-storage sites can do this, don't assume that they're too obvious to mention and I've already considered them — I don't know a lot about what capabilities they have, so I probably haven't.
Let's say I took 500 pictures. No one wants to see 500 pictures, of course. But how many they would want to see depends on how well they know me, the situation in which I'm showing them, etc. Let's say I'd like to have three different slideshows available. The smallest might have just 15 pictures selected out of the 500. The second might have a total of 50 — the 15 from the first set, plus another 35. The third might have another 70, for a total of 120 pictures. (Don't obsess over the numbers — they're just examples for illustration.)
I'd like to easily be able to select any of the three sets — 15, 50, or 120 photos — to show to someone. Ideally a web- or cloud-based solution that works cleanly on either a desktop browser or Android mobile, i.e., either a dedicated app for Android or a well-designed mobile version of the site.
I'm imagining some sort of rating system (controlled entirely by me, not crowdsourced), so for example, if it's a rating system that goes up to 5 stars, I would rate the top 15 photos 5 stars, the next 35 with 4 stars, and the next 70 with 3 stars. Then I should easily be able to display a slideshow of either the 5-star photos, the 4-star and up photos, or the 3-star and up photos.
I'm not tied into a rating system like I described though, that's just one possible way I envision accomplishing what I want to do, and am open to other methods. However, I'm trying to avoid a tag-based solution where I have to manually tag photos into multiple groups (e.g., one where the top 15 photos are tagged with "group1 group2 group3," the next 35 with "group2 group3" and the final 70 with "group3"), as I'd like anything placed in the top group to automatically be placed into the larger versions of the slideshow as well, avoiding both the manual work of tagging it into multiple groups as well as the possibility of accidental error ("group1 group3").
If any major photo-sharing or photo-storage sites can do this, don't assume that they're too obvious to mention and I've already considered them — I don't know a lot about what capabilities they have, so I probably haven't.
Response by poster: But is it possible to set up three albums in Flickr (let's say "small" "medium" and "large") such that when I place a photo in the "small" album it's automatically also placed in the "medium" and "large" albums, and when I place one in the "medium" album, it automatically also goes into "large"? That's the core of what I'm getting at. If all that would have to be done manually, it has the same drawbacks as a tag-based solution.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 4:53 AM on October 29, 2017
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 4:53 AM on October 29, 2017
Any decent photo organizer should let you select all photos with tag A and add tag B to them in one operation, so as long as you build your smallest album first you won't have a significant amount of extra work to do even if an ordinary tagging scheme is all you have.
posted by flabdablet at 5:38 AM on October 29, 2017
posted by flabdablet at 5:38 AM on October 29, 2017
Flickr will not do that automatically, but you might be able to rig something up using IFTTT. Basically, set a recipe that any picture added to AlbumSmall gets added to AlbumMedium and AlbumLarge. IFTTT does not handle large numbers in Flickr well, so I would only add like 5 at a time.
If you are only creating these albums once and not adding to them repeatedly, you can easily create AlbumSmall, then create AlbumMedium and add all of the AlbumSmall pictures to it using Organizr and then do the same with Album Large. Another option is to have Small, Medium and Large as their own Albums and add them all to a Collection. Album and Set are the same things in Flickr, but Collections are larger: "A set contains photos. A collection can contain sets (or other collections)."
posted by soelo at 10:12 AM on October 30, 2017
If you are only creating these albums once and not adding to them repeatedly, you can easily create AlbumSmall, then create AlbumMedium and add all of the AlbumSmall pictures to it using Organizr and then do the same with Album Large. Another option is to have Small, Medium and Large as their own Albums and add them all to a Collection. Album and Set are the same things in Flickr, but Collections are larger: "A set contains photos. A collection can contain sets (or other collections)."
posted by soelo at 10:12 AM on October 30, 2017
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